Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Ryan Krull of the fantastically funny X-podcast Homo Superior joins our host Lodro Rinzler for a one-shot where Psylocke fights Sabretooth!

We cover Uncanny X-Men 213 where Sabretooth is fresh off the Mutant Massacre and loose in the mansion just being scary y'all. Also in this episode:

• we cover the 25 classes of new mutants

• the weird almost relationship of Psylocke and Douglas Ramsey

• Psylocke has gotten with everyone on earth who bears the last name Summers

• Lodro has a voice (and a face) made for podcasts

• Sabretooth is invisible when wet

• we've all dated a psycho blast back in the day

Psylocke ends up joining the X-Men this issue while wearing her pajamas, which she then wears them as a superhero uniform from then on so as not to make it weird.

What does any of this have to do with Ryan's future? Tune in to find out!

You can find more of Ryan over at the Homo Superior podcast. More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Amber and Chris VanMoesnerr join our host Lodro Rinzler for a "plot-driven" X-Men issue from the Disassembled era five years ago, which syncs with the birth of their son. We talk parenting + X-Men. We talk about how sometimes the X-Men is written like the show 24. We talk about whether Professor X would make for a good babysitter.

Also in this episode:

• the super dark period of the X-Men when they lived in a bar and murdered everyone
• Cyclops died with a lot of regrets
• Dark Beast gave himself spider legs
• we have another Mutant Massacre of the Morlocks...and it gets a panel's worth of discussion
• want to take Wolverine out? Throw a knife in his eye
• the X-Men do hits for the US army now...and so they get mistaken for the Avengers
• Captain America does Pilates

Amber and Chris VanMoesnerr live in upstate New York with their two lovely children. According to the bios they offered for each other, Amber is a lovely person who is training to be a mental health counselor as well as a professional podcaster and Chris is a journalist in the energy commodity space, a failed political candidate and an excellent dad. You can check out Amber's fascinating podcast about learning she was donor-conceived, Biohacked, right here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Mikey G of the x-cellent Instagram account XTropes joins our host Lodro Rinzler for an episode devoted inadvertently to how great the character Lifeguard is.

Still interested? Well we do cover an amazing crossover: X-Men and Alpha Flight 1, where Madelyne Pryor gets super powers!

Also in this episode:

• Rachel is a future daughter from a future timeline who is from the future...and only wears a black leotard and bright red leg warmers into battle

• Justice for Slipstream, the White Surfer

• Is Alpha Flight good?

• When you get attacked the best way to practice self-defense is to kiss them

• Northstar is gay and Rogue speaks French

• Sasquatch is having trouble being a Sasquatch and gets cured of Sasquatch stuff

Plus Mikey has a bird phobia. What does any of this mean for his future? Tune in to find out!

Mikey hails from Sydney, Australia. Although he did not grow up there. He grew up on the west coast of Australia in Perth which is the most isolated city in the world hence the harsh accent. Besides his one true love, the X-Men, he enjoys shaking his fist at clouds, horror movies and all things housewives. He is the number one fan of the greatest Claremont creation of all time: Lifeguard. Which makes him crazy.

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

This week legendary X-Writer Kieron Gillen joins our host Lodro Rinzler for a very special episode entitled "The X-Office is an Anarchist Commune." We discuss, not surprisingly, what it was like behind the scenes during the recent Krakoa era, the Fall of X, and how Xavier was right (?). Kieron was born right as Thunderbird died so we dive into the epic story told in X-Men 94 + 95.

Also in this episode:

- Kieron has emotional contraceptives for that

• the overlap between Hickman and Gillen writing styles

• the X-Men are forged into...the Breakfast Club

• the death and rebirth of Thunderbird

• how Count Nefaria is somehow the primary x-villain this season on the show

In the Q&A section we cover who the DJ was on Krakoa, how Selene loves to eat people and what the X-Men would be like as a sitcom.

Also: Power Fantasy, Kieron's BRAND NEW comic, is out...TODAY! Go get it! Like, today today!

Kieron Gillen first came to attention as a comic creator with his 2006’s Phonogram, with Jamie McKelvie. Jamie and he formed into a gestalt monster that rampaged against the next fifteen years of comics, culminating with critical and smash hit the Wicked + the Divine. When not with Jamie, he has co-created books such as DIE, The Ludocrats, Once & Future, Three, Uber and more. When not making his own worlds, he has worked on Marvel Comics biggest books, such as Uncanny X-Men, Young Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, Star Wars, Eternals and Darth Vader, (where he co-created Doctor Aphra). You can follow along with Kieron's work by buying Power Fantasy TODAY(!) and signing up for his newsletter here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

This week we are joined by Mark Bassett, critically acclaimed cellist and long-time friend of the host (who also arranged our theme music)!

Professor X is dying (again) so what does he dream about? Meeting the big love of his life: Magneto.

Join us in Israel after the Holocaust where things are just awful for regular human Gabrielle Haller. Nazis want to use her as a map for getting Hitler's gold because...sure. It's Gold Rush! A Nazi buddy comedy for Professor X and Magneto with lots of wacky hijinx and the origination of their ideological differences.

What does this issue mean for Mark's future? Tune in to find out!

Mark Bassett earned his cello performance degree at the New England Conservatory of Music. He also has a degree in music education from the College of St. Rose. As a musician, Mark has played with many orchestras and chamber groups including the Philadelphia String Quartet, Calder Quartet, South Florida Symphony and Fresno Philharmonic. He has toured with artists such as Josh Groban, Lindsay Sterling, and bands Evanescence, Celtic Thunder, and Hanson. Mark's passion for video game music has led him to be principle cellist for Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddess tour, and with the Final Fantasy: Distant Worlds tour. As a studio musician, He has recorded for recent films such as Frozen 2, Charlie’s Angels, and Bad Boys 3. Mark has also recorded for many video game scores including Final Fantasy 12 remake and Final Fantasy 15. You can follow Mark on Instagram here.

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Right in time for the movies, Deadpool co-creator + writing legend Fabian Nicieza joins our host Lodro Rinzler for Count Nefaria stealing Washington D.C. He would have gotten away with it too if not for those pesky telepaths. Born in Argentina, Fabian grew up on (and learned English from) X-Men comics so we dive into issue 23, syncing with his arrival in the good old U.S. of A.

Count Nefaria has kidnapped the X-Men and is holding Washington D.C. hostage for seventy trazilliom dollars. Also in this episode:

• what it's like to sell literal millions of comics each month (it was the 90s)

• Professor X forgets that the telephone exists

• Alfred Hitchcock has nothing on The Scarecrow

• in the 60s framing the X-Men was just a thing everyone did

• the first person to call Professor X a dick on panel

- Fabian will kill off Colossus (if he has to)

What does any of this mean for Fabian's future? Tune in to find out!

Fabian Nicieza has worked for Marvel since 1985 when he started out in the department for Fisher-Price licensed activity books. He moved on to become Marvel’s Advertising Manager and then during that time, Fabian also began writing for Marvel on a freelance basis. His first published book was PSI-FORCE #9 in 1987. He then went on to write THE NEW WARRIORS which was simply wonderful.

Clearly a glutton for punishment, Fabian also began writing several of Marvel’s top-selling X-titles, including X-FORCE, CABLE, DEADPOOL and the company’s #1 selling book, X-MEN. These books not only sold millions of copies to gazillions of readers, Fabian also got to star in a series of X-Men Pizza Hut videos.

And outside of comics, Fabian has worked with STARLIGHT RUNNER ENTERTAINMENT for 20 years on story world development and franchise management consultation for some of the biggest entertainment companies on some of the biggest properties.

He has written two novels including SUBURBAN DICKS which was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award.

His NEW comic Free Agents is out NOW! You should go pick it up it's a lot of fun.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Live from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin we have esteemed diplomat Brett Eggleston joining our host Lodro Rinzler to unlock the international affairs of the X-Men. We dive into Brett's birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 133 - where Wolverine is alone and fights the Hellfire Club! Mastermind is a creep! Cyclops dies! Also in this episode:

• Don't let Claremont name you or you end up dead

• Wolverine is not very polite for a Canadian

• the freakiest thing Cyclops has done in bed

What does any of this mean for Brett's future? Tune in to find out!

Brett Eggleston is an American diplomat now living in Berlin, Germany with his wife and two perfectly angelic young children. In the past 15 years Brett has served the State Department in Washington DC, Damascus, Amman Jordan, The Hague, Dubai, and London. He grew up in sunny San Diego, California - a childhood which he describes as blissfully shielded from comic books.

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Your favorite graphic novelist you don't know yet, Alex Dvorak, joins our host Lodro Rinzler to discuss ACTS OF VENGEANCE, which is basically the comic equivalent of slamming action figures together. In this case, Wolverine fights the Mandarin...and Betsy Braddock in an ambiguously Asian new body! Huh?

But wait! It's also the X-Men Meditation Issue.

As if that's not enough going on, additional topics include:

• how does Psylocke even get that strappy banded outfit on?

• Wolverine sometimes just says things that he thinks sounds cool

• Jubilee dresses exactly like Batman's sidekick Robin

• sometimes your powers just sound like "Zappa dappa doo!"

• Banshee's arch enemy is the white noise machine in a kid's nursery

What does any of this mean for Alex's future? Tune in to find out!

Alex Dvorak is a multicultural screenwriter and journalist published in The Washington Post, HuffPost, POPSUGAR, and many more. She is the author of a Mad Cave Studios YA graphic novel set to be published in 2025. Alex's narrative short film BAD SURVIVOR, inspired by her first 24 hours in cancer remission, premiered at the 2024 Big Apple Film Festival in NYC. As the daughter of immigrants from clashing cultures, a teen cancer survivor, and a former runway model, Alex writes stories of teen rebellion based on real-life experiences with authenticity, dark humor, and heart. She can be found on Instagram at @itsalexdvorak.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com